lo-fi prototype: Removing content from Chrome

Hi all,

This email has two goals:
	- demonstrate how easy/uninvolved/non-committal  a lo-fi protoype  
can be -- they only took a couple hours
	- make a suggestion on clarifying what is 'chrome', which we all  
talked about a lot but I don't think appears much in our rec doc

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I made some changes to the Safari and Firefox 3  chrome that  
separates the verified content from the non-verified content --  
whatever those terms mean, I'm staying out of defining them ...

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~maritzaj/wsc/chromeMakeover.zip
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~maritzaj/wsc/ff_favicon.png


The zip contains:
	 /chromeMakeover/safari
	 /chromeMakeover/firefox3

In each folder there is an example of how the proposed changes would  
look on a site with and without SSL. For firefox I also included how  
the changes might affect Larry  (not to be taken as full support for  
Larry  but because it's in firefox 3).


The biggest change is the title tag string in now only displayed  
where the tabs are, the favicon is also only displayed in this area,  
and there should be a dark line (or whatever else) to signify a  
distinction between "chrome" and the web content).

I moved the SSL lock in Safari from the far upper right hand corner  
to the favicon location, maintaining the presentation that it's part  
of chrome, it should be clickable to display the info in the same  
way.  I made these mock-ups last week prior to the release of ff3  
beta 3 ... where in the os x version displays the favicon so it looks  
even more like it's a part of chrome (see picture 1.png attached).

In firefox I changed the favicon to a green check mark -- not  
necessarily a good idea but I needed a place holder. Notice on sites  
that don't have SSL this area is left empty.

I'm not suggesting changes like this are the silver bullet but I'm  
almost sure we agree that having "trusted" content mixed with  
untrusted content in the chrome causes problems for users.

Thoughts/feedback?


-- Maritza

	http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~maritzaj/